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Why Some Lakes are Salt.

The cause of the sadness of some Ameri-
can lakes is too patent to require many
words of explanation. 1t is probable that
when the continents were raised from the
sea, the lake-basins had been already
formed, and came up, therefore, brimful OF
water. In the northern and eastern part
OF the continent, where the supply from
ram and snowfall exceeds the loss by evap-
Grafton, the salt, being continuously carried
away through their outlets, has become so
diluted as to be an imperceptible quantity.
In arid regions. as the Pacific slope and the
country about the Caspian, where the evap-
Grafton was in excess of the supply, the
water level of the lakes continuously sank
until, on account of tie diminished extent
of surface, the equilibrium of loss and gain
was attained. Hence the exceeding salt
ness of Great Salt Lake, the Dead Sea, etc.
For q Ike reason the water of the Mediter-
ranean contains more salt relatively than
that of the ocean. Evaporation exceeding
the supplies from the rivers and rainfall,
1t requires constant current through the
Strait of Gibraltar. The sameis true of the
Red Sea, ceusinga like current through the
Strait of Bah el-Mandeb. Other salt or
brackish lakes probably owe their sal n
TO the supplies from the land. Water
being the most general of all solvents, the
rains gather up the chloride of sodir ~
from the soils and the disintegrating rocks,
and where the streams fall into lakes
whose only outlet is evaporation, the land
Itself must be constant source of saline
supply, and their waters must become more
and more salt, until their capacity as a
solvent has been reached.
The Utah Basin must once have been
filled to its brim with ocean-water The
lake, receding 10 its present level, has left
many evidences ofits former extent-PoD-
llGr Science Moathlg for Jtt}y.
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Prehistoric Emit.

The botanist informs MS how the prehis
| toric host adorned his little feast; the cate:
| he offered his guests for grace rather thar
| for need; the dessert he set before wed.
| ding party, and the provender he placed
| before the no less joyous convivial lists
! hidden 10 rejoice over the advent of first.
| born These archaic boards were not SO
| scantily furnished as we might suppose
| Foremost figured the time-honored pear
| and apple; the homely fruits, so dear to
! schoolboys of all ages and all countries. we
now know delighted the palates of children
born ere recorded history began. The pre-
! his ORC area of the sppie was chiefly in the
region lying between Trebizond and Chi.
! Ian. The lake jewellers of Lombardy,
Savoy and Switzerland made great use OF
| apples. They always cut them length
ways and preserved them dried as a provi-
sion Tor the winter" writes Decandolle in
| his interesting work ON the Origin of Gull
| tivated Plants"
Two varieties of apples seem to have
| been known to the lake-dwellers before
they possessed metals. Whether they ever
solved the problem that hopelessly puzzled
| George III. and got them into a dumplinp
archaeology does not as yet inform us. The
abundance of the fruit found in the prehis-
toric stores would seem to indicate some
| kind of cultivation. The pear Is OF -
frequent occurrence, although it is found
in the prehistoric dwellings of Switzerland
and Italy, usually in dried state and cut
lengthways. Then. as now, therefore, the
pear was greater luxury than the apple.
The abundance and variety of names tes-
tify to the very ancient existence of the
latter from the Caspian Sea to the Atlantic.
Philology comes largely to our aid in this
interesting study. The more ancient and
widely spread plant, the more numerous
its names.
But prehistoric diners.out possessed one
of the best of all fruits-the grape. Seeds
of the grape have been discovered in The
lake dwellings near Parma, dating from the
sge of bronze; siso in the prehistoric SET
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SPLINTERS.

School teacher illustrating the difference
between plants and animals)-" Plants are
not susceptible of attachment to man as
animals are" Small boy Cat foot of CLASSY
How about burrs, teacher ?''-Burliaqton
Free Press.
The telephone girls in the central Office
don't feel insulted if man speaks to them
before he has been introduced. He has
only TO say 4" Hello" and they will chat as
freely as if they sung in the same church
choir with him.-FaH Rirer Adpance
Her mother was sowing some seeds, and
tried TO explain to Maggie how they were
put into the ground little seeds and came
up plants. "Oh, yes - she said, her face
Frightening. They go to bed babies, and
get up growed people. - Youths Com
pdiii0n.
" Mr.. Walker, said the clerk, " the u
cent prints at the remnant counter are GO
ing fast, and are about sold out All
right, I'll attend to it. Mr.. Anawan, cut
a lot more of those seven cent prints into
remnants, and send them over TO the bar
gain counter. "-B,rdette.
q don't care anything about the rise in
the price of coffee. Darn the coffee What
want to know said the restaurant pro-
prietor anxiously, as he stopped at the
>.
Z" is whether chicory and dried beans have
gone up any or not. Chicago Tribune.
The deacon's wife wanted to lot down
the text, and leaning over TO her scape-
grace nephew, she whispered Have you
any cards about you?' You can't play
in church, was the solemn, reproving an
swer, and the good woman was so a1ster-
ated that she forgot her text Cattaraug,,s
Republican.
There were few Connecticut women of
the last century who did not keep a diary.
We quote this from dairy of 1890: I'VE
had roast pork for dinner, and DIR. s.,
who carved, held up rib on his fork and
said Here, ladies' and gentlemen. is
what Mother Eve was made Of Yes,
said Sister Patty, and it's from very much
the SAME kind of critter. Tile Lirinq
Church.
"Who was the wisest man in the worid?p
asked the teacher Solomon replied a
little girl. "Yes, Solomon was the wisest
man. But there is one wiser than Solomon;
there is one who knows everything that
has been, or is. or ever will be, who knows
everything. Who is that" And the tail.
good looking boy at the head of the class
thought moment and said, The London
spondent of a New York paper" He
got three blue tickets.-Brookiya Eagic.
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Features of the az thousand Islands. -

If the islands and islets still remained
merely in their original condition, as
rounded dome shaped knobs, clad with
pine and maple and Virginia creeper, ris-
ing humplike in slow slopes from the wa
ter's edge, they would still be extremely
romantic and picturesque. But they are
far more than this. The ceaseless action
of the river at their sides, aided by the dis
integrating frosts of winter, and the press
ure of the ice packs when the lake " breaks
up in early spring (exactlysas if it were an
academy for young gentlemen in the Easter
holidays). has cut many of their edges into
steep little cliffs, Enthusiastically weathered,
as granite almost always weathers, into
beautiful broken crags and pinnacles. Thus
the cliffs often spring sheer from the surface
of the water, worn by rain and frost into
quaint, jutting shapes, and with rare ferns
and flowers and creepers hanging out here
and there from their creviced hooks. The
SUBMITS remain for the most part smooth
and polished by the old ice-action; and the
contrast between their bald, round surfaces,
almost gray with age and lichens and the
Jagged and rudy outline of the more re-
cent fractures, makes an extremely bold
and effective element in the total picture.
The islets are also of every imaginable
shape, size and grouping-some of them
big enough to hold two or three farms, and
others of them rising solitary from mid
stream, crowned by a single waving stem
OF Canadian cedar Here is one, for exam
pie, a mere bare pinnacle of molderipg
rock and here is another, craggy little
island, yet covered with endless variety OF
timber, whose dropping foliage hangs over
the bank and reflects itself placidly in the
silvery mirror below. Thus cluster after
cluster passes before ones eyes, all fairy
like, green and romantic, but all as intin-
itely varied i'll shape and contour as intril
cate intefmixture of rock and vegetation,
and land and water can possibly make
them Grant -4HeH u, Popular Science.
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The Fight Against Poverty.

As most of our readers are aware, an as
ISOLATION has lately been formed in this
city under the title of the Anti-Poyerty
Society" 1t proposes to eXtirpate poverty,
throwing the whole burden of taxation
upon land. One may be allowed to doubt
how far the proposed remedy. if found to
be applicable would go toward accomplish
ing the result desired; but, that poverty IS
an evil, and that the best efforts of modem
society should be devoted to removing 1t,
admits of no doubt. If the Anti-Poverty
Society accOmplishes no other good object,
we trust it will at least, during the term of
its existence, help to render the community
more deeply sensible of It's duty in this
matter. When we speak of the comlnu-
nifty, however, We mean its individual
members, in their several private capaci-
ties, rather than the community US a
politically organized body. We are not of
those who hold that in legislation is TO
be found the cure for all social ills. On
the contrary, we should be disposed to
class what We may call the Legislation
habit" with what has been called the
aleohol-habit " in this important respect,
that each implies resort to an artificial
stimulus as remedy for constitutional
weaknesses-in one case in the social or
ganism, in the other in the individual
human body. Both involve distrust of,
or disregard for, hygienic measures and the
discipline of Nature; and both stand in the
way of Nature restorative action. If pow
erty is to be cured we believe it can only be
through the more general application of
those principles and methods by which it
is already warded off from the larger por-
ton of society. The problem that has to
be faced is the serious one of rendering
every individual in the community fit to
earn a maintenance for himself Such
fitness implies freedom from habits that
are burden npon life, from a
physical or any other point of
view. Let the advocates of drastic meas
ures of legislative reform say what
they will, the fact remains that, given i
certain measure of well-directed faculty,
and success in the struggle of life becomes
sure thing. Instances abound in every
country. but nowhere so much as in our
own, in which men have risen, not only
from the humblest but from the most dis
advantageous beginnings to positions of
wealth and influence. 1t IS ali question
of fitness. In the social sphere, as else
where, the fit will survive and flourish !;
the pre- emibentiy fit will flourish pre-
eminently. 1t may be thai pre-eminent
fitness for present social conditions may
not imply ideal excellence of character /;
no doub; il does not still the fact remains
that success is a question of adoption, and
that want of success or poverty means nom
daption.-F9pHiGr Science Monthly for .Iily
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PowprR1y,s OpIN1ov M Pr,

PowDERLY's OPINION OF RUM.-In his
recent speech in Boston, Mr. Powderlv
said; Now, word about the great curse
OF the laboring man-strong drink. Had
10000 600 tongues, and throat for each
tongue, would say to each man, woman
and child here tonight, Throw strong
drink aside as you would an ounce OF
liquid hell" Tremendous applause 1t
sears the conscience, il destroys everything
1t touches, it reaches into the family circle
and takes the wife you have sworn to pro.
tect and drags her down from the pinnacle
OF purity into that house into which no
decent woman ever goes alive. Applause. !
II induces the father TO take the Furniture
from the house, exchange it for money at
the pawnshop, and spend the proceeds in
rum. 1t daInns everything it touches. ]
have seen 1t in every city east of the Missis-
slppl, and know that the most damning
curse to the laborer is that which gurgles
from the neck of the bottle. TCheers.l |
had rather be at the head of an organiza-
ton having 100000 temperate. honest,
earnest men than at the head of an organ
ization of 100000 drinkers, whether
moderate or anyother kind-BoSto. Herald
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Mistakes in Language.

4 professor of English literature has pre-
pared the following list of words anc
phrases 10 be avoided in conversation anC
writing:
Guess. for suppose or think.
Fix, for arrange or prepare.
Ride and drive. interchangeable.
Real, as an adverb, instead of really, as
real good
Some, for somewhat; I have studied
some.
Some ten days, for about ten days.
Storms. for rains.
Try an experiment. for make an expert.
nent.
Singular subject with contracted plural
verb. as she don't skate well.
Plural pronoun with singular antece-
dents; every man or woman should do their
duty.
Expect, for suspect.
First-rate, as an adverb.
Had rather, for would rather.
Right away, for Immediately.
Party, for person.
Promise. for assure.
Posted, for informed.
Post graduate, for graduate
Depot, for station.
Stopping, for staying.
Try and do, for try to DO.
Cunning, for small.
Cute, fer acute.
Funny, for odd.
Above, for foregoing.
Looks good enough, for well enough.
Somebody else's, for somebody's else.
Like. for as.
Not as good, for not so good.
Feel badly, for feel bad.
Feel good. for feel well.
Between seven, for among seven.
Seldom or never, for seldom if ever
More than You think for, for more than
you think.
These kind, for this kind.
Nicely, in reply to inquiring for health.
Healthy, for wholesome.
Just as soon, for just as lief.
Kind of, to indicate moderate degree.
The matter of, instead of the matter with.
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SLAVERY IN BRAzIL-The emancipation
of the slaves in Brazil was commenced in
1873, when the number registered in the
empire was l,530,000 a registration
completed on the Both of March this year
shows not more than half this number of
slaves although in the fifteen years the
black population has largely increased. In
the cities the decrease has been more rapid
than in the country. In Rio Janeiro in
1873 there were 80 900 slaves registered: in
June, 1885, there were but $4,000, and on
April l, 1887, only 7,46S Ia the other
cities of Brazil about the same proportion
holds good. Even in the coffee districts.
i'll which was the greatest opposition to
emancipation and the number of slaves
greatest, the returns indicate that despite
the large number of slaves imported from
the northern provinces of the empire, the
new registration will show decrease of
fully one-half since 1873. We have there
fore some reliable data upon which to
found the estimate that the slaves in Brazil
do not now exceed 100000, none of whom
are under 10 or over 60 years of age.-Ner
Orleans Tines Democrat.
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SHE MUST NOT KNOW.


past her by with glance so stern and cold,
For she must ne'ermy LIES devotion kno.3
Though my fond heart her image still dot-n hold
As stars are mirrored in the lake below.
She must not know my being turns. co her
Mid hope or fear, in shadow or IN shine
AS oceans deepest depths the aeon doth stir.
Her presence still uplitts each thought Of
mine.
She is 50 near to me AID yet SO lar
Wealth, beauty, rank, intrude themselves be-
tween;
Zen genius crowned could scarcely burst the
bar;
Could Love dare scale the nights that intervene.
No, no not in these last degenerate days
Hath Love the power it had in days of yore;
We faint, we fail: and favored Fortune sways
Our hearts, our lives, our actions, more and
more.
Yet Eros, Love divine, doth hold me still,
willing subject; but she must not know
Her voice, her look, can make q deepening
thrill
That stirs my being to its depths below.
T. J. RICHARDS.
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Elements of Lake Varese and of Switzer-
land. NJ. Decandoile, moreover, informs
us that vine leaves have been found in tie
tufa near Montpelier, where they were
probably deposited before the historical
epoch, also i'll the same formation in Prov
ence. Whether they combined the two we
know not, but it is quite probable that wine
and walnuts delectated the palates of prim-
tive feasters. The walnut is of great an
tiquity. Walnut leaves have been found
in the quaternary tufa of Provence, and a
species of walnut in some of the Swiss lake
dwellings. The species possesses Sans
krit name, fact testfying to its early cul-
tivation in India. The tree was introduced
into China about 40 B. c. Only one cherry
stone has been 'as yet found in any pre-
historic settlement of Italy or Switzerland,
nor is the antiquity of the stratum quite
certain Chambers Journal
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TEE OUTGROwTET OF a VAST EXPHREEryCE

The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females. at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, n. Y,
has afforded vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladeS.
DIR. Pierce's FavOrite Prescription
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baffied their skill, prove Il TO be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. II
is not recommended as cure-all," but
as a most perfect Specific for woInan's
peculiar ailments.
AS a powerful, invigorafing tonic,
it imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the uterus or womb and its ap-
pendages, in particular. For overworked,
''worn-out, - rundown debilitatcd teach
ers. milliners, dressmakcrs, seamstresses,
"shop-girls." houselleepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
appctizin2 cordial and restorative tonic. 1t
promotes digestion and assimilation of food,
Address, WORRIES DssP
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A PERFECT DAY.

light lies on the hills, the far-ofF hills
thousand rays fash from the shining rills
And sunbeams fall in every vale
No clouds to day no misty veil,
But light, glad sunlight, everywhere.
The bright-hued flowers. full of sweet surprise,
Awake and greet me with their laughing eyes
The wood paths show, 'twixt banks of green,
Where feet have pressed the sods between;
And zephyrs softly pass DER all.
The leafcrowned trees are filled with life and
song;
The clover seas invite busy throng
OF laden bees to share their bloom,
And freight the air with sweet perfume
That wins me to the outdoor world.
Q, royal day for mead and woodland plumed
Thy genial slnbeams reach the deils pertumed
With ferny fronds, aud miut that grows
In spray-damp soil, yet scarcely shows
It's toothsome green to careless eyes.
Oh, perfect summer day thy golden hours
Too soon shall wave and pass, for wish of ours.
Oh, were all days like this like thee.
Hush, heart, j II tske just as they be
Days light or dark. since have this
Hrs VI. J. Smith in Iick's Magazine for JuIls.
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An ASTRONOMICAL PuzzLE.-One Of the
most mysterious and remarkable of the
changes witnessed in the solar system is
the variation in the brightness of Jupiter's
moons. Two of the four satellites occa-
sionally cross the planets disk as dark OBJ
lects, although their sunny sides are pre-
scented to us, and should appear no less
brilliantly illuminated than the planet it.
self. The third and fourth satellites often
make these dark transits, and the first is
sometimes seen as a brown object, but the
second has never been noticed otherwise
than as a bright disc. During recent
lnt nths observations have been made of
quite q number az dark transits of the
fourth satellite, and very few of the third
but the cause of the phenomenon remains
without satisfactory explanation.
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In pregnancy, " Fayorite Prescription .
is n mothers cordial" relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. If
its use is kept up in the latter months of
CESSATION, it SO prepares the system for de-
livery as to greatly lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the suferings
of that trying ordeal.
ssEavOrite Prescriptions when taken
in connection with the use of Or. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa-
tive doses of DIR. Pierce's Purgatiye Pellets
little Liver Pills., cures Liver, Kidney and
Bladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abolishes can
cerous and scrofulous humors from the
system.
"FavoriGe Prescription il the only
medicine for women sold, b. druggists,
under q positive guarantee, from the
manufacturers, that it viii give satisfac-
ton in every case, or money will be re-
funded. This guarantee has been printed
ON the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully car
Tied out for many years. Large bottles
100 doses $500, or six bottles for
$500.
~ Send ten cents in stamps for DR..
Pierce's large, illustrated Treatise $50
pages) on Diseases of Women.
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lW1tten for the REcoRD-USToN.l
LOVES LESSON.

You taught me the task of loving,
In words that you now regret,
You won my hearts devotion,
Now teach me how to forget;
You say the task is easy
That the victory will soon be won,
But womans heart with its wealth OF love,
VIII break o er the wrong you've done.
You taught me the task of loving,
But an how little you knew
OF the pain and weary heartaehe
When found your love was untrue;
Did you think when you won the treasure
Of woman's love so deep
That you could cast II aside with pleasure
and her trust repay with deceit?
VIII not conscience awake and tell thee
OF the ruin your treaehery hath wrought
WIZ dream of the past rise before thee
Bringing with it one remoTseless thought?
But my lips shall TO longer reproach thee,
For in memory thou art dear TO me yet
You have taught me the task of loving,
win YOU teach me how to forget2
Mrs. NELLIE BLOOM.
West Oakland, June 26, 1887,
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PREVENTING Bees AND MorRs.-Floors
when washed after carpets are taken up
should have trlrpentine poured into the
cracks and along !he baseboards, and di-
luied carboiic acid should be put in the
water the floor is washed with. Neither
buffalo bugs nor moths will trouble the
carpet for one year Shelves to cupboards
and floors to closets ought 10 be washed
well in water that has carbolic acid in it.
With these precautions there is no need of
carpets being ruined by MOTHS Exchange.
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MANY young girl shuts herself OUT from
society because her face is covered with
pimples and blotches. Ali dis6guring hu-
more are removed by purifying the blood
with Ayers Sarsaparilla. This remedy is
the safest and most reliable that can be
used.